La Fabulosa Guitarra De Paco De Lucia

Fabulous guitar in name and fabulous guitar in sound; along with a carefully selected repertoire, which shows off a refined panorama of the Flamenco toque offering an intelligent variety of genres for this his first full length album as a solo artist. The titles of the tracks selected show his great connection to the land, offering us a selection of the fundamental styles of the Flamenco geography: ‘Triana’, ‘Cádiz’, ‘Punta Umbría’, ‘Jerez’, ‘La Unión’, ‘La Caleta’ and ‘El Tajo’. Recorded when Paco was just 19, in addition to the use of the Flamenco techniques of the time (reverb, echo, etc.), here there is a superb sense of the compass of Flamenco, a fabulous right hand technique (thumb, alzapua, strumming), dizzying picados and perfect legato of the left hand. Paco begins to use chords and harmonies in principle far from the musical world of the flamenco guitar in those times.
It continues with bulerias, the genre to which he would bring such renewing colour and which impacted so greatly on the youth of the time, as it continues to do today. So young at the time, clearly present here are the influences of the idols of his youth: Niño Ricardo, Mario Escudero and Sabicas, persistent influences during this first stage of his career. He had already started to show himself to be a mature artist ready to make in his mark in Flamenco guitar; and with a completely natural sound, which is totally Flamenco, there are already hints of his innovation.